The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Leisure group Whitbread has reported a more than 10 increase in sales over the past six months at its Premier Inn chain as businessmen shun expensive hotels for cheaper alternatives during the economic slowdown.
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I’m pleased to report that Late Of The Pier’s album, Fantasy Black Channel, will see a stateside release via Astralwerks on January 13, 2009! The full -length is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed Echoclistel Lambietroy digital EP. It’s hard not to like a band who has song titles like “Focker” and “Whitesnake”, is it not? [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Best buy: Cowon iAudio D2
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Administrators to Unwins have concluded that there is a potential claim to be brought against former directors of the failed off-licence retailer.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Signet shares rose despite a 28pc tumble in first-half profits, buoyed by stronger performance from its British jewellery chains H Samuel and Ernest.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Sterling's precipitous slide against the dollar has wiped out most of the benefits British Airways has seen from the lower oil price, the airline said.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Tom Horan meets his childhood hero Gary Numan, who explains the importance of being lucky and tells him about how he wrote Are Friends Electric?
The Indie Credential (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
The gig guide is back after a couple of weeks where there wasn’t much going on or, if there was, we were too lazy to report it. Of course, the summer holidays are over now and so the gig listings are filling up nicely for the autumn. Things don’t really get going until Thursday this week [...]
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Building on the success of 'The Edge of the 80s' earlier this year, it seemed only right and proper to continue the series. The logical next release is 'The Edge of the 70s', serving up 3CDs of classic tracks ...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
in post Of some interest... from Certified Banger .
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
While RZA continues his trek into the wilds of choruses sung by ladies in patchwork pants, broken-sounding old men, and dudes he almost surely plays chess with on " Life is Movie ," this new track from GZA’s brand-new Pro Tools —which adds Gary Numan, of all people, to RZA’s hooksmen pantheon—is otherwise unfadeable. Check for bass sample that kicks in, absurdly loud, right after GZA’s first verse:...
silence is a rhythm too (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Paul Gardiner - Stromtrooper In Drag Featuring Gary Numan on vocals 1981
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The best of the new releases.
ireallylovemusic (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
this years klaxons anyone ? well in so much that this debut has confounded those that expected this hyped band to fall flat on their arse and make a boring album. instead this is a madly off the wall blast of nu-grave electro with chunks of prog-rock thrown in to confuse the listener. tracks chip-and-pin [...]
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel (Parlophone)Paul Taylor 7/ 8/2008YOU could regard this is a sprawling game of spot-the-influence, or as one of the most hearteningly inventive pieces of British rock in recent times.Late Of The Pier are a four-piece from Castle Donington who plainly heard the arty stylings of Franz Ferdinand, but chose to gild this lily with the kind of synth sounds Gary Numan...
